Wireshark in a TUI
Details
- External ID
- 49438446
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Wireshark in a TUI
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Aug. 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 11
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6088709677419355
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- cross-device control and OS utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- wireshark in a terminal user interface
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A terminal UI is straightforward to build, but performing live packet sniffing, reassembly, and protocol dissection akin to Wireshark requires specialized networking libraries.
What it would actually take: The stack would typically involve Go with Bubbletea/Termbox or Rust with Ratatui, hooking into libpcap (or AF_PACKET/eBPF) for raw packet capture. The hard part is dissecting dozens of network protocols (IP, TCP, TLS, HTTP, DNS) and handling stream reassembly at wire speed, which requires either integrating Wireshark's libwireshark C libraries or using mature packet parsing libraries (e.g., gopacket).
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: tshark/libwireshark
Concerns raised: skepticism about live capture reliability, whether it actually works as demonstrated
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 76 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #31 of 77 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 263 days after the earliest competitor.
- Mcpsnoop · hn · 2026-07-03 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- VD · hn · 2026-08-08 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- retro-bridge · github · 2026-09-14 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- SubnetLens · hn · 2026-09-10 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- OmnySSH · hn · 2026-06-13 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- WAHA-TUI · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- wire · github · 2026-09-17 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Walkie-Talkie Toy over WiFi/Tailscale on Raspberry Pi · hn · 2026-01-03 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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